The Fury said:
SegataSanshiro said: As far as I am concerned no one has hit more than 61 home runs in a single season in the MLB. No one. |
That is a reference I had to look up. Guessing the 3 people above Roger Maris are all on the naughty side of things? Even with evidence, did they keep their scores?
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The records are still there, though they are considered tainted. No one gives a rat's ass about Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron's record for most home runs ever, for example.
Of course, baseball is an interesting example, as many stars of the past are also known to have cheated, though without nearly the same level of sophistication. Drug use in the sport has been traced back to the 1950s with amphetamines and steroids have been reported as common in the 1970s.
If they started throwing out the records of drug users it would get really, really interesting.
Still, with people like Bonds, it's almost impossible to argue that never before has anyone ever benefited so much from performance enhancing drugs, even if they were widely used before.
"Through age 33, Bonds hit 15% fewer home runs than contemporary Ken Griffey Jr. at the same age (481-411). But from age 34 on, Bonds not only out-homered the oft-injured Griffey by more than double, 351-149, he also out-homered every other man who ever played Major League Baseball by the freakish margin of 28%. Aaron (274) is a distant second to Bonds in home runs at such an advanced age." Link
That's just insane.